Dixie Pegasus heads to victory over Honest Past in Friday's second race at the Little A. Race Track

Supremacy wins Boxing Day feature race as St. Thomas horses pull out
BY DEAN GREENAWAY

Supremacy beat Smooth Legend and Wally to win Friday's Boxing Day feature race which was held with local horses only before a modest crowd, as St. Thomas horses pulled out of the races. St. Thomas held races Sunday instead. "As far as I can remember and as long as I've been in horse racing, St. Thomas has never had horse races around this time of the year," BVI Horse Owners Association president Carl Thomas said of the first held following election of a new executive committee. "Tortola and St. Croix normally have races on Boxing Day every year for as far back as I can remember, but, I never know St. Thomas to have a race around this time. I look at this as trying to sabotage our races for this race day here," Thomas said. "When we say we are going to St. Thomas we go. But, when they say they are coming they don't normally come," Thomas noted. "We don't call them and then don't show up." The feature race was held up for three minutes as Smooth Legend's handlers tried to get him in the gate. When the race started, Supremacy took a lead he never relinquished. "We were a little nervous because we didn't like how he was sitting in the gate for several minutes, but after he got out with full rev we said it was over," assistant trainer Devern Stanley said after Supremacy took a two length seven furlong victory in 1 minute 30. "Everybody however was looking for Wally to win. But, I thought we wouldn't have beaten Smooth Legend." Stanley said they were looking for St. Thomas' Rushing Away who won his last outing here. "We'll just to have to wait until the next race to see what happens," Stanley said. "I think the St. Thomas horses should have come because we have been supporting them every race. I don't see why they couldn't come." Peanut Prospect won the opening six furlong race in 1:18.0 ahead of Quaker Rat and Mountain Man. Dixie Pegasus had a two lengths wire to wire victory over six furlongs in 1:19 in the second race while Livermore Run's 1:31.0 beat Fabulous Cherokee by a length and a half in their seven furlong third race match up. Actspectation ran away from Arabian Charm for a 15 lengths victory over seven furlongs in 1:28.0, in the day's final race. "Things have gone very, very, well, the crowd is here," BVI Horse Owners Association public relations officer Axel Ritter said. "Unfortunately some of the horses scratched at the last minute. But, everyone enjoyed themselves. I'm happy with the turnout."